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...Senate??? ¶ Debated the Italian debt settlement (see below). ¶ Debated farm relief measures. ¶ Passed two bills for the beautification of the Capital. One, carrying $1,900,000, was for a connecting link between Rock Creek and Potomac parks. The other extended the powers of the Park Commission. (Bills went to the House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal...
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...Finance Corporation. Frank Kellogg is no longer one of Mr. Roosevelt's trust-busting lawyers. The young Congressman from Cincinnati, who came up to the White House and took away Roosevelt's elder daughter, is now Speaker of the House. And the great figures of the Senate???most of them have gone to their graves: Hanna, Penrose, Aidrich, Hale, Platt. How deeply the bitterness of some of Roosevelt's fights with them is buried. Cannon, retired far from the scene of legislative battles, remembers much, and Roosevelt's Cabinet? how diverse have been their fates. One sits as Chief Justice...